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Min. distance for Jamaat salaat in Masjid to be wajib

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Is praying in the masjid a wajib or not, and the answer (No.462) has been posted on the website but the answer is not yet clear to me. ALHAMDULILLAH after Mufti saheb said that it is a wajib, I agree and I accept that it is a wajib to pray in the masjid but my house is far away from the masjid it takes me 7 minutes to get there , is it still wajib. Which much mininum distance the house should be from masjid in order for jamaat salaat to be wajib.
There is no particular boundary defined. However, during the time of the prophet peace be upon him they used to call out adhan and as far as it went people within the reach of the sound were considered to be the members of that Masjid.
Since, now days we don’t have such system and we call adhan only inside of the Masjid, the requirement would be that if you can easily get to the Masjid without mush difficulty then one should go to it. But if one finds it difficult then one should pray at home. But one responsibility Muslims would have is to move closer to the Masjid.

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